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U.S. Air Force veteran Sonya Bryson-Kirksey, who sings the national anthem for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning, became a familiar face to TV viewers during the team's recent run to the Stanley Cup championship. But her celebration of the team's title didn't last long: Last week she was hospitalized with the coronavirus despite being vaccinated in March, according to reports. Her husband, Jimmie Kirksey Jr., said she had tested positive for the delta variant and was doing better on Thursday morning.

The Celebration of Holy Mass According to the Roman Missal of 1962July 21, 2021Daniel Cardinal DiNardoOn July 16th, the Holy See publicized the motu proprio letter of Pope Francis, Traditionis custodes, whereby the Holy Father shares his dispositions on the celebration of Holy Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962.Since Traditionis custodes touches upon certain pastoral realities in this local Church, I am consulting with a number of people on the implementation of the Holy Father’s directives, including some priests who regularly celebrate Mass according to the 1962 Missal in their parish churches. I aim to provide for the...

Mary Katharine Ham appeared on CNN for a segment on Anthony Fauci. She was great, which means she probably won’t be appearing on the network for months since she expertly dissects the liberal media narratives. She’s too good at it. And the look of irritation that was exhibited on the faces of those in this segment was priceless. Ham called the play perfectly when it comes to Fauci and the media. The man doesn’t field tough questions from the media. It is a ‘fan girl’ experience and you can see that with his huffy and puffy attitude when questioned about...

Math is racist. (At NASA, Creola Katherine Johnson performed critical astrophysics calculations on the fly which other engineers couldn't do, while computers were still punch-card input, as portrayed in the film Hidden Figures -- movie trailer.) Music notation is racist. (Don't listen to the music of African-American classical composers William Grant Still, Florence Price or Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Don't listen to "Akinla" from Fela Sowande's African Suite.) African classical composer Fela SowandeRabid fears of racism in serious academic work just happen to correspond to educational planning goals rolled out 5 or 6 lifetimes ago. What we would call socialism in...

I apologize if this post breaks a rule, but there's a new DC-focused subreddit that's being set up in response to censorship of posts and comments, particularly about crime and last night's shooting (linked), on the main city subreddit. Please join and spread the word if you are a redditor. Here's the new page: https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said his new Justice Department is focusing on five American cities to tackle illegal gun trafficking. On Thursday, while in Chicago, the official announced he’s sending gun trafficking strike forces to the Democrat-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington D.C. In a statement, the attorney general noted, “all too often guns found at crime scenes come from hundreds or thousands of miles away.” The strike forces represent a bolstering of federal and local law enforcement seeking to disrupt the flow of unlawfully obtained firearms to the places they are...

A year ago Tang Juan was among those charged by the US Department of Justice in connection with an alleged scheme to lie about their status as members of China’s military while in the US conducting research. (Department of Justice)In documents filed in federal court in Sacramento, prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss a charge of visa fraud against Juan Tang but gave no reason why. The trial was set to begin on Monday. A message seeking comment from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Sacramento was not returned.

ADELAIDE, Australia — That morning cup of joe may be just what you need to help jumpstart your workday and sharpen your mind. But if you find yourself repeatedly heading over to the coffee pot for refills, you may be actually putting your brain health at risk. Too much coffee can increase the risk of dementia, warns a new study. Drinking six or more cups a day was linked with a 53 percent increased risk of dementia and make stroke more likely, too. Brain imaging reveals that drinking a lot of coffee was also associated with brain shrinkage, say scientists....

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) slammed some in the Republican Party for “whitewashing” the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. In an interview on “The Takeout Podcast,” CBS News’s Major Garrett asked the governor to weigh in on efforts within the GOP to “sanitize” the attack, which led to multiple deaths and hundreds of arrests. “We have to get to the bottom of exactly what happened there, and there's no whitewashing,” Hogan said.

VIDEOFasten your seatbelts before you watch the Virginia Beach School Board at the July 20, 2021 meeting try to shut down parents from speaking out by using the "agenda" excuse to constantly declare them to be off-topic. It does not go well as the parents fight back in quite a dramatic fashion.

Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 13:18-23 Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus explains the parable of the sower. Let’s study each part of his explanation. The seed sown on the path is “the one who hears the word without understanding it, and the Evil One comes and steals away what was sown.” This means we might end up blocked from God because we lack education in the ways of the Spirit. The seed sown on rocky ground is “the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy. But he has no root and lasts only for...

Upon leaving my Cuban American community, I encountered individuals with no functional understanding of Cuba and the many millions debilitated by the regime.As a first-generation Cuban American from Miami, Florida, my upbringing, daily discourse, and education have been overwhelmingly influenced by the Cuban struggle. To me, it’s always seemed straightforward: Cuba’s communist system has inflicted human and civil rights violations, family separations, and sexual, religious, and ideological persecution of minorities since 1959. Yet upon leaving my Cuban American community, I encountered individuals with no functional understanding of Cuba and the dire context that defined the lives of myself and the...

Actor Sean Penn is reportedly refusing to return to the set of his upcoming Starz anthology series Gaslit until everyone in the production has received the coronavirus vaccine. Deadline reported Penn is insisting to the production on the mandatory vaccination of all production personnel, including actors and crew members, and has offered to facilitate the vaccination effort free of charge through his organization CORE. Sean Penn’s demands come as Hollywood studios and unions recently reached a tentative agreement allowing productions to make vaccinations a mandatory requirement for work on TV and movie shoots. NBCUniversal, which is producing Gaslit, has reportedly...

During a town hall with CNN this week, President Joe Biden said handguns should be banned. “The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it’s a, whether it’s a 9mm pistol or whether it’s a rifle, is ridiculous," Biden said. “I’m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things." But Politifact, which claims to be an objective fact checking organization, rated the claim Biden said he would ban handguns "false."

In a miniseries relevant for our times, four remarkable children must tune out media propaganda and seek truth to solve what’s causing a society-wide panic. “There is a place where truth matters, even if most people don’t pay attention to it.”“The Mysterious Benedict Society,” a streaming TV series on Disney Plus faithfully adapted from the original novel by Trenton Lee Stewart, slowly unravels a surprising and even sophisticated mystery with a talented ensemble cast and charming Technicolor style.Set in a vaguely British seaside locale circa the mid-1970s, the plot hinges on news media anxiously hyping a threat called The Emergency....

[Catholic Caucus] I attend the Latin Mass. My fellow attendees and I share the same concerns all Catholics should have."Most of the sermons I have heard revolve around the Sacraments, types of sins and how to avoid them, and how to combat secular culture."Traditional Mass in Basilica of St. Pancras, Rome, 2016. Thoom/ShutterstockPope Francis has said that Summorum Pontificum has been “exploited to widen the gaps, reinforce the divergences, and encourage disagreements that injure the Church, block her path, and expose her to the peril of division.” He used this as one justification for severely restricting the freedom of priests...

A question for all of us. Do we realize what the "biden" administration is doing to this country? To the citizens? It looks like obama style: fundamentally transforming this great nation to a heap of ashes. I read through the posts on Free Republic and it's unbelievable what I see the left is doing to all of us. I don't see how we can go till 2022 to save our nation. They are on a high that will turn this nation into a hell hole.. From great to destruction. How can we do nothing. To say there is no way...

‎https://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2020/9/7fd3a542-e177-4f24-b894-e7d2e813a2c0.jpg‎ As expected, the accumulated anger and dissatisfaction of Iranians, whose ‎patience with the current economic and political conditions has come to an end ‎and had manifested itself in recent months, first in the form of widespread ‎strikes and protest rallies and now in the shape of public uprisings in cities of ‎Khuzestan.‎ The people of Khuzestan province, in addition to facing skyrocketing prices, ‎unemployment and the coronavirus pandemic are suffering from power and ‎water outages in the scorching heat of this region, where the temperature is ‎above 120 degrees.‎ The water shortage and drying up of rivers are due...

Stanford University reports 7 breakthrough cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated students All seven students were symptomatic, the university said. ByMorgan Winsor July 23, 2021, 2:45 AM Stanford University reported at least seven confirmed cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated students this week. All seven students were symptomatic, according to the school. "As you have seen in the national news, cases of COVID-19 have been ticking upward," Stanford University officials said in a letter to students on Thursday. "We are seeing some of this in our own community, where we are experiencing an increase in the number of student COVID...

...Since the initial rule book was issued in February, Tokyo 2020 has turned the restriction screws much tighter. Foreigners traveling to the Olympics must now have two negative PCR tests before boarding the plane to Tokyo. They must take a third test on arrival in Japan, which is officially called “Day 0,” and additional tests on days 1, 2 and 3. Saliva-sample spit boxes are positioned throughout the Olympic apron. There are no exemptions for those already vaccinated. Last week duty-free shops were ordered to examine customers’ passports to be sure they haven’t violated 14-day quarantine restrictions. To enforce Covid...